What Year did you have your first Triple.

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Hilly wrote:A brand new s1c HOR 814N bought from Bob Gollner Kawasaki Portsmouth in May 1975. Sold it a year later for Z1b.
was that on the corner of Elm Grove in Southsea , or when they moved to Denmead Thumbs Up

I always remember going into the Southsea shop and drooling over the triples, but couldn't afford one :(
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bought set of ARE wheels there!
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Kezsam1 wrote:
Hilly wrote:A brand new s1c HOR 814N bought from Bob Gollner Kawasaki Portsmouth in May 1975. Sold it a year later for Z1b.
was that on the corner of Elm Grove in Southsea , or when they moved to Denmead Thumbs Up

I always remember going into the Southsea shop and drooling over the triples, but couldn't afford one :(
It was the shop at Denmead. They had all the triple range on show. If I remember correctly they were on raised platforms inside the showroom. Brand new S3's, blue H1f's, purple h2c's. my idea of heaven!..Needless to say I was a regular visitor. Thumbs Up
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Hilly wrote:
Kezsam1 wrote:
Hilly wrote:A brand new s1c HOR 814N bought from Bob Gollner Kawasaki Portsmouth in May 1975. Sold it a year later for Z1b.
was that on the corner of Elm Grove in Southsea , or when they moved to Denmead Thumbs Up

I always remember going into the Southsea shop and drooling over the triples, but couldn't afford one :(
It was the shop at Denmead. They had all the triple range on show. If I remember correctly they were on raised platforms inside the showroom. Brand new S3's, blue H1f's, purple h2c's. my idea of heaven!..Needless to say I was a regular visitor. Thumbs Up

great little place its a bloody estate agents now :?
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My first triple i had was in 1978
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White KH 250 B4 JKX 295 V,1st August 1979 "V " reg day Ken Kay Kawasaki in Luton My 17th birthday is the 16th!!!,,did lots of miles before I was 17 ,only had L plates on for the day of my test !,Happy days
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Hilly wrote:
Kezsam1 wrote:
Hilly wrote:A brand new s1c HOR 814N bought from Bob Gollner Kawasaki Portsmouth in May 1975. Sold it a year later for Z1b.
was that on the corner of Elm Grove in Southsea , or when they moved to Denmead Thumbs Up

I always remember going into the Southsea shop and drooling over the triples, but couldn't afford one :(
It was the shop at Denmead. They had all the triple range on show. If I remember correctly they were on raised platforms inside the showroom. Brand new S3's, blue H1f's, purple h2c's. my idea of heaven!..Needless to say I was a regular visitor. Thumbs Up
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kawasaki kh250 1976,wanted an s1c but one year to late. OSG 5P was the number. The mechanic at the shop,Better Bikes Kawasaki had OSG 1P on a z900 8) 8)
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Does anybody know anyone that had a 69 H1 back in the day or is there somebody in the club who did :?:
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1977 Built a bitsa from a non-running H1B & an utterly written off KH500.
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KHA 128L p/x (+£300) for my R5 Yamaha cafe racer, from Allins, Cambridge in 1977, sold it to Mr De'ath (honest... :shock: ), Bristol for £900 in 79 (approx £4.5K in today's money).

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stevie747 wrote:KHA 128L p/x (+£300) for my R5 Yamaha cafe racer, from Allins, Cambridge in 1977, sold it to Mr De'ath (honest... :shock: ), Bristol for £900 in 79 (approx £4.5K in today's money).
Could then be the bike that Paul De'ath rode all over Europe, from Portugal in the west and to as far as Greece in the east? RB put a picture of his bike in one of the very early club newsletters as probably one of the worlds most widely ridden H2's
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Hal wrote:
stevie747 wrote:KHA 128L p/x (+£300) for my R5 Yamaha cafe racer, from Allins, Cambridge in 1977, sold it to Mr De'ath (honest... :shock: ), Bristol for £900 in 79 (approx £4.5K in today's money).
Could then be the bike that Paul De'ath rode all over Europe, from Portugal in the west and to as far as Greece in the east? RB put a picture of his bike in one of the very early club newsletters as probably one of the worlds most widely ridden H2's
Could be, how many De'ath's own H2's :shock: (maybe he should've called it a 'Widower maker' :lol: ).

He almost didn't buy it off me, after coming up from Bristol in a van with some mates, I took him out on it and he literally shit himself :lol: It was wet but I still managed a few 2nd gear two-up wheelies and when we got back he was shaking like a leaf - his mates got him to buy it. They chucked it in the van and with no straps, they drove off holding it up in the back :shock: I think I mentioned all this in the Superbike Hairy Tales story I did at the time. Thumbs Up
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Have you got the Superbike report. Can you put it on here??
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Gary557 wrote:Have you got the Superbike report. Can you put it on here??
I think someone has it scanned somewhere (maybe malc :smt102 ), my original copy is deep in the loft somewhere.... :?
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Cool.... if you look closely you can see a pair of (mega loud :twisted: ) Fiamm airhorns (in the correct place and the right way up :D :D :D ) which were a unique upgrade for an H2, as I was running pods, it left space for the air compressor under the seat, which obviously justified chucking away the airbox... :shock:
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Well.......this is my first H2B back in 1977 in Dayton, Ohio........doing a wheelie as that was standard procedure.......no shirt or helmet.......(Young, Dumb and Full of @#$$......Stupid) :shock:

Not a good PIC, but it's real :smt002

Then a Pic in Dallas, Texas on my Brothers Z-1 about a year or two later, still had braces in........notice the head pipes are white 8)

And a Pic of the weather today here......Wow :roll:

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great pics Thumbs Up
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2014 - yep, really.
A bit slow to getting round to ownership(H2b) but hoping to fix that with the over zealous use/abuse of that nasty fossil fuel :D

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Heres my consumer of all that nasty oily fossil gunk :D
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1982 .....kawasaki S2 350 bought from a local dealer for £200 spent quite a bit on it BWV 53L I sold it for £450 to some bloke called Rick Brett around 1990.It was sold last year on the bay for £4500 I contacted the seller and he still had the receipts for all the bits I bought. Now in the process of getting an S2a new to this sight but enjoying the banter already.
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